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But though Miss Boncassen has left us we are a very pleasant party, and surely you must be tired of such a place as Crummie-Toddie. If only for the sake of getting a good dinner once in a way do come over again. I shall be here yet for ten days. As they will not let me go back to Grex I don't know where I could be more happy.
On one side of this cross were engraved the name of the Pope and that of our Sovereign, the name of the Admiral of France, and those of the captain and all his crew. On the other side appeared the Latin verses following, made by the above Nicole Le Fevre, signifying the date of this transaction "HIC sacra paLMarIUs, post UIt gonIVILLabInotUs, "GreX, foCIUs parIterqUe UtraqUe progenles.
He gazed thoughtfully into the fire of pine logs which was burning upon the open hearth. "Mr. Grex," he said, "that is plainer speaking than we have ever received from any official source." "I admit it," Mr. Grex replied. "Such a statement on my part may sound a little startling, but I make it advisedly.
That's what I need yet, you should grex from the start with your backache. Ray, take this in to your papa. Fooling with that new camera she stands all morning, when she should help a little. Look, Miriam, you think that in here I got the express checks safe?" "Yes, mamma." At ten o'clock, with the last bolt sprung and the last baggage departed, Mrs.
Grex and his daughter were already amongst the captured. He quickly abandoned his first instinct. "With pleasure, monsieur," he assented. "Tell me when to stop." He drove the car a few yards round the corner, past a line of others. Their lights were all extinguished and the chauffeurs absent. "This is a pleasant sort of picnic!" he grumbled, as he brought his car to a standstill.
But to your own father you have not ventured to speak." Then he told his story, as best he knew how. It was not that he feared his father, but that he felt that the present moment was not fit. "He wishes you to marry that Lady Mabel Grex," she said. He nodded his head. "And you will marry her?" "Never! I might have done so, had I not seen you. I should have done so, if she had been willing.
"I particularly want you," said he, "to come and call on Mabel Grex. She wishes to know you, and I am sure you would like her." "But I haven't been out anywhere yet," she said. "I don't feel as though I wanted to go anywhere." Nevertheless she was very anxious to know Lady Mabel Grex, of whom she had heard much.
Plunging is a doubtful word, and the path down to it, like all doubtful paths, is slippery and easy! If that assurance with which Mr. Moreton ended his letter could only be made true, he could bring himself to forgive even this offence. The boy must be made to settle himself in life. The Duke resolved that his only revenge should be to press on that marriage with Mabel Grex.
With careful fingers he drew the cork. At a murmured word of invitation from Mr. Grex, the others rose from their places and also helped themselves from the sideboard. Selingman took up his position in the centre of the hearth-rug, with a long tumbler of yellow wine in one hand and a sandwich in the other. "For myself," he continued, taking a huge bite, "I wage war against all formality.
"Grex is very old, and very wild, and very uncomfortable. But I love it dearly. Matching is the very reverse of Grex." "Not I hope in your affections." "I did not mean that. I think one likes a contrast. But I must go, say on the first of January, to pick up Miss Cassewary." It was certain, therefore, that she was going on the first of January.
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